Waar will he do with it?", i.e. what is Mr. Goschen going to do with the expected surplus!—a surplus which would probably reach four-and-a-half millions,—was no doubt interesting taxpayers generally in the week ending January 25th, as well asin the previous week; but that seems hardly to excuse Mr. Punch for re-publishing on the 25th, over the signature of John Tenniel, the cartoon by Mr. Gould which the Pall Mall published on the 16th. What makes it more unfortunate for Punch is that Mr. Burnand was very severe on the Pall Mall when it published in the same week as its contemporary a cartoon of Mr. Chamber-Jainas "Tosephin Egypt". Another equally remarkable coincidence of conception—the execution being better in the Pall Mall—will be found on yo 41 of Punch (for January 25th, which is published on uary 22nd) and page 124 of the Pall Malt (for January 25rd). One would like to know who is responsible for selecting the new artists on Punch: if the ghost of John Leech ever revisits 85, Fleet Street, he must fly back tothe shades with an indi nant groan when he sees such atroci the caricature of Millet, signed G.R., on page 40, er the hunting scene, which the perpetrator has at least the grace not to sign at all, on page 45.
here is again a good deal about Portugal in the papers, and such anxiety to accumlate proofs that she is in the wrong as is not altogether re-assuring; the naked fact being that with our present engagements in Africa, we cannot give way to Portugal, and therefore we cannot consent to arbitr tion. It is pleasant to see that the dispute has not been made a party question with the respectable opposition journals; the latest of them, The Speaker, gives what is probably s very general feeling, even among those who recognise that Lord Salisbury has done the only thing practicable:—
It is hardly possible for anyone but an expert in South African geography to speak very decidedly on the matters in dispute, forth an official map on which her Afric well known that in 1884 Portugal put lions were depicted as stretching right across the Continent from Angola to Mozampique. A railway, perhaps suggested by the Canadian Pacific, was projected to unite the Atlantic and Indian oceans, The western end was said to be under construction; the survey of a line subsidiary to the eastern end was one of the ostensible objects of Major Serpa Pinto's expedition last March. But the case made out for these claims, even when stated by Senhor Batalha Reis in its strongest form—still more when put in more_ fis despatch printed in the Times of December eneral terms by Senhor Barros Gomez, in
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